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Everyone, everywhere, including businesses large and small will need to reduce and find alternatives if we are to have any hope of fixing the problem. The more
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Everyone, everywhere, including businesses large and small will need to reduce and find alternatives if we are to have any hope of fixing the problem.
The more who avoid the issue and just plant a few trees, the longer it will take, and the lower the chances of us ever having done enough.
- abraae 8y ago"just plant a few trees" sounds pretty dismissive. Trees are effective at capturing carbon and building with timber is an effective way to lock up that carbon for a long time.
- lapinot 8y ago> is an effective way to lock up that carbon for a long time It is not. It may be locked up for a little while (~100 years) but we're talking about ridiculous amounts in comparison of the millions of years that make up for long-term carbon cycle. When it degrades (burning, decomposition) it just releases the carbon. The tldr of the environmentally problematic human action on the carbon cycle is that we are pumping carbon from the long-term cycle (coal, petroleum, eg inside the earth's crust) into the short-term cycle (atmosphere, biosphere). Biosphere already so huge that there's no way we can make up for our pumping by making it bigger. We just have to stop emptying the long-term cycle. (or find a way to pump the other way; i'm no geologist or chemist but this sounds very unlikely for energy efficiency reason)
- muro 8y agoYou could bury it underground / in a swamp.